Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-16
Hearss,s qualifications for sem

The Herald had preferred 10 see
our able townsman, /. w. Hellman,
chosen as Senator, by the Democratic
members of the Legislature. In this
desire we have been disappointed,
our representatives giving their votes
to George Il Eearst, Of San Francisco.
He being the choice of those in whose
hands the trust of electing Senator
was put, we propose to say brief
word touching this action. This is
made incumbent upon us from the at
titude of the Republican party, and
pa rticularly OF the press of that party
toward Mr.. Hearst. 1t is alleged that
he has secured his seat by liberal
use of "boodle." We must say the
a appearances all point the other way.
In the absence of proof a flat denial
of such allegation is quite proper.
With how bad grace such charges,
founded on the merest surmise, come
from a party which for years has lent
itself to the election OF "boodle" SEN
ators. If the Republican press will
look up the record of Tabor OF Colo
rado, and Sharon of Nevada-and
these are not isolated cases-they will
be slow in talking OF this matter.
Then Hearst is violently attacked
rs man intellectually unfit for the
position. He is vastly filter than
either of the Republican Senators
named above. Sharon did not even
try to serve his constituents. lie
drew his pay as Senator, but spent
very little of his time at Washington.
The simple fact is, that Mr.. Hearst,
while not versed in dead languages, or
in the recondite principles of abstruse,
pure sciences, he is a man OF large
knowledge OF affairs. OF much hard
common sense acquired by long and
varied experience of life. His
speeches made at Washington are
pointed to as lacking in the elements
of elegant rhetoric. They may not
be marked by the polish of Clay or
q Webster, but they probably aver
age pretty we'll when compared with
some of his Republican colleagues.
Ours is Democratic government, and
in the history of the Nation many
men of plain good sense, have served
their constituents exceedingly well,
despite the fact that their oratorical
forts were confined to the vernacu-
lar, and lacked all garniture of foreign
ongues. In fact, Hearst's English is
rather attractive as compared with
eome of the able editors who attack
him.
The nominee for the Senate is
man engaged in multifarious enter
prises. He works mines, grows
grapes. has dairy farms and fruit
farms. He is credited with having a
weekly pay roll in the State of 1000
men. 1t will not do to fill the Senate
with railroad presidents and railroad
lawyers, which is about the complex
ion the Republican party seem dis
posed to give it. Other branch
es of business should be rep
resented there. Mr.. Hearst is
spoken of by Senator Jones, of Neva-
da, as one of the most useful men in
the Senate. Jones is man of great
good sense, and OF experience in life.
He had an opportunity to observe the
course of Hearst in the Senate, and
he recognizes his ability.
Certain inexperienced milk-sops OF
eastern newspaper reporters, with
little knowledge of the world, and
with no regard for truth, sent out
very highly colored accounts of Mr..
Hearst's convivial habits. Any re-
ports of his being other than decent
in his habits, are in plain English,
lies. He is a genial, cordial, plain
man, of Western American type-A
style OF citizen worth more in all
walks of life,a hundred fold, than the
average half Anglicised dude OF
m odarn eastern growth, The
country can i'll afford to exchange,
the plain, simple, American OF the
olden time, such as Hearst is, for the
modern fop, despite the elegant var
nish of the latter's dress.